All New-Orford-Quartet articles

  • Brahms-New-Orford
    Review

    Brahms: Two String Quartets op.51

    2016-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2016 Description: Playing of warmth that gets to the heart of Brahms’s elusive quartets Musicians: New Orford Quartet Composer: Brahms Brahms’s op.51 string quartets synthesise Beethovenian structural integrity with Schubertian lyricism under high musical pressure. The resulting contrapuntal compression was to have a ...

  • Hetu-New-Orford
    Review

    Hétu: Complete Chamber Music for Strings

    2015-06-03T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: June 2015 Description: Chamber works by a French-trained Canadian composer Musicians: New Orford Quartet, Steven Dann (viola) Colin Carr (cello) Timothy Hutchins (flute) Composer: Hétu This vividly recorded CD gathers the complete chamber music for strings – spanning almost half a century – of ...